Due to an administrative backlog, many visa applications are yet to be processed. It's meant some have decided to enter the U.K. via the back door.
The U.K. government has struck a deal with Rwanda. The U.K. pays for all people seeking asylum, who are deemed to have arrived illegally, to be sent to the central African country for processing.
He says he knows a large number of undocumented Ukrainians living in London and the community as a whole is concerned. Ireland lifted visa requirements for Ukrainians, meaning refugees who arrive there can enter the U.K. via northern Ireland, through the open border arrangement. "Ukrainian nationals in the U.K., there is no reason why they should be undocumented," Patel said."They are here legitimately and legally.""One, through our visa route and secondly, through their status in the U.K.," Patel said."The other point about Rwanda, which is a migration and economic development partnership, is it actually addresses the wider issue about illegal migration.